A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.

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Entry from September 19, 2020
“Don’t touch the whatchamacallit because it will make the doohickey not work with the thingamabob”

Folksy “placeholder” words sound more ridiculous in the same sentence. “I’ve told them a hundred times ‘Don’t touch the whatchamacallit because it will make the doohickey not work with the thingamabob!’” was posted on Twitter by Thabang Trodd on October 18, 2010.
     
“I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work!  Any ideas?” is a saying that has been printed on many images. “I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work!  Any Idea’s?” was posted on Twitter by James Humphreys on September 5, 2011, but the line probably originated on an image.
     
       
Twitter
Thabang Trodd
@TroddAwesome
I’ve told them a hundred times “Don’t touch the whatchamacallit because it will make the doohickey not work with the thingamabob!”
11:45 AM · Oct 18, 2010·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Thelma Grijalva
@gri24
I’ve told them a hundred times—don’t touch the whatchamacallit because it will make the doohickey not work with the thingamabob!
6:17 PM · Oct 21, 2010·Status Shuffle
   
Twitter
James Humphreys
@humpdogg369
I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work!  Any Idea’s?
12:39 PM · Sep 5, 2011·Status Shuffle
   
Twitter
paula patterson
@princesspaulap
I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work!  Any Idea’s?
1:19 PM · Sep 6, 2011·Status Shuffle
   
Twitter
Laura Mcnally
@lauramcnally
I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work!  Any Idea’s?
3:52 PM · Sep 8, 2011·Status Shuffle
 
Twitter
JAMES
@brucewayne5687
I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the wuteveritis still doesn’t work. Any ideas?
9:55 PM · Jul 16, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
     
Twitter
P.L. Klein, Author
@PLKlein_Author
“I put the thingamabob inside the whatchamacallit, turned the doohickey and the whateveritis still doesn’t work. Any ideas?” ~ #Unknown #ThinkingOutLoud #MondayMoment #MondayThoughts #QuickQuotes #MondayThoughts #Whatchamacallit #Thingamabob #Doohickey #WhateverItIs
6:14 AM · Sep 14, 2020·Twitter Web App
 
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Crazy World
Poster based in Spain · September 19, 2020 ·
I PUT THE THINGAMABOB INSIDE THE WHATCHAMACALLIT, TURNED THE DOOHICKEY AND THE WURTEVERITIS STIL DOESN’T WORK. ANY IDEAS?

Posted by Barry Popik
New York CityWork/Businesses • Saturday, September 19, 2020 • Permalink


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